Unique model railroad collection on display

Irv OslinPublished: September 18, 2006 12:00AM

By T-G Staff Reports
Dick Petersons model railroad collection, on display in the fairgrounds hobby building, really hits close to home. The engines and railroad cars in his collection are replicas of those that would have passed through his family farm on Ohio 603 near U.S. 42.
The trains traversed what was the Erie and Erie Lackawanna tracks in the 1950s and into the 1970s.
Peterson has detailed the freight cars with the names of area businesses, including F.E. Myers and Floyd Bennett Lumber.
He began collecting about 25 years ago but this is his first time exhibiting at the fair.
Because of the local interest and the quality of the exhibit, he was given a special invitation to display it, according to hobby building supt. Ken Woode.
Peterson is in his second year as a seasonal maintenance man at the fairgrounds.